The LSU Tigers might have fallen short of College Football Playoff glory in 2023, but quarterback Jayden Daniels still made his mark on the season.
His Bayou Bengals finished 9-3 in the regular season and tied for second in the SEC West with Ole Miss, just behind Alabama.
The 6-foot-4 senior from San Bernardino, CA finished the year with 3,812 passing yards, 40 touchdowns and only four interceptions, and capped it all off with a trip to New York in December to claim his Heisman Trophy.
Daniels’ college career is likely over, unless he opts-in to play in LSU’s bowl game against Wisconsin. With no announcement regarding Daniels’ availability for the ReliaQuest Bowl, the current odds have LSU as 10.5-point favorites.
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Regardless, analysts are already looking forward to Daniels’ next chapter, predicting that he’s got a bright future ahead of him in the NFL.
Jay Glazer and Dave Helman analyze Jayden Daniels’ draft stock
On a recent episode of the NFL on FOX Podcast, FOX Sports NFL analyst Dave Helman asked FOX Sports NFL Insider Jay Glazer if Daniels had played himself into a top-10 draft position.
“I don’t know top-10 pick yet,” Glazer noted. “But did he play himself into the first round? Yes.”
“Where in the first round, I don’t know yet. Quarterbacks — once teams do get to pick them apart — they start to slide up more than down.”
Currently at FanDuel, Daniels’ odds to get drafted No. 1 overall are fourth on the board at +3500, behind USC’s Caleb Williams (-500), North Carolina’s Drake Maye (+400) and Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr. (+2000).
“There’s a lot to look at and love [with Daniels], so I think as you start looking at it, yeah, I think you’re looking at top 10, top 15,” Glazer added.
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